Some of Trump's picks, particularly for foreign policy positions, have been disappointing. But as far as domestic policy goes, there is a lot to like.
When it comes
to Covid lockdowns and mandates, he's batting a thousand so far. He will nominate RFK, Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services and Dr. Marty Makary for FDA Director. Both were vocal opponents of lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine mandates while they were being imposed.
That last part is important. As time goes on and it becomes more and more apparent that nothing governments did during Covid did anything but harm, it will
be easier and easier to condemn them. Think of all the critics of the Iraq War today vs. in 2004.
It is nevertheless important that the government itself, i.e., people in official positions in the government, acknowledge lockdowns and mandates were a mistake. Kennedy and Makary already have but not while serving in the government.
The Covid atrocities cannot be allowed to stand or they
will become like the New Deal or any other progressive myth. Your grandchildren will be reading in school history textbooks about a deadly virus the swept the world but was defeated by wise leaders like Anthony Fauci despite some resistance by rubes like you and me.
The biggest challenge to repudiating the Covid Regime by the Trump administration is Trump himself. He presided over all of it, except for the vaccine mandates, which he
consistently opposed, to his credit. But even during his 2024 campaign he was proclaiming lockdowns were necessary and that he saved millions of lives by playing his part in them.
It's hard to condemn your own policy five minutes after bragging about it, but if anyone can...
I talk about this and more on today's episode of Tom Mullen Talks Freedom. There are also some great
links on the show notes page:
Listen to Episode 182 here...
Tom Mullen is the author of It’s
the Fed, Stupid and Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Happiness?
Tom